Douglas, C/iasc and Parker J 7s// Kilanea. 



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Mr. Stewart. Where the subterranean discharge which emptied the crater and must 

 have been of great volume, is not known. It may have been, probably was, one of the 



submarine eruptions which have been marked only bj- a more or less tidal 

 1834 wave or merely by the number of dead fish along the shore. 



David Douglas, the Scotch botanist who lost his life in a cattle trap on Hawaii, 

 and who made the first recorded ascent of Mauna Loa, was at Kilanea in January, 1834, 



Perkins. jflG. 39. VIEW OF THE LAVA STREAMS OF 1S32 AND LATER. 



and measured the depth of the pit at one thousand feet. A lake of boiling lava at the 

 north end was three hundred and nineteen yards in diameter. Halemaumau 

 1838 was much as described by Ellis."" 



On the eighth of May, 1838, Captains Chase and Parker visited Kilanea, and 

 their description has been published with a sketch of the crater. The lavas had again 

 nearly reached the black ledge, and all over a surface of four square miles were cones 

 and lakes of fire; twenty-six of the former were counted, eight of which were ejecting 



^''Jourual of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. iv, 333, 334. Douglas was at Kilauea Jaimarj' 23-25, and his 

 ascent of Mauna Loa was on the 29th. He was killed in July of the same year. 



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